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uni-, un-
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vers-, vert-, -verse, -version, -version, -versation, -versal, -versary, -vert, vort-, vors-
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university, college
university (yoo" nuh VUR si tee) (noun)
An educational institution that offers courses leading to a degree: such as, a bachelor's, master's, or doctoral degree and where research is done: "He completed his degree in law at the University of California."
college (KAHL ij) (noun)
1. An educational place in the United States where a person may go after high school and which offers courses leading to a degree; such as, a bachelor's degree or an associate's degree: "He decided first to go to a college to get his bachelor's degree and then to do research for his doctoral degree at the university."
2. A school that offers advanced training in a specified subject: "She was so talented in art that she decided to go to an arts college."
2. A school that offers advanced training in a specified subject: "She was so talented in art that she decided to go to an arts college."
After his cousin finished high school, she had to decide to apply to the well known university which was in another city or to the fine arts program at the college in her town.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group U; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. +
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uni-, un-
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(Modern Latin: chemical element; first made at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at the University of California in Berkeley; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; first made at the University of California and named for California and the University of California in Berkeley; radioactive metal)
(Text of Commencement Address at Stanford University)
(coined and presented by Royston M. Roberts, PhD, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Texas, Austin; among many other achievements)
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university college students
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Pleonasms or Tautological Redundancies
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uni-, un-
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